Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid
Patent
1991-05-15
1992-11-24
Bertsch, Richard A.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
60723, 60737, F02C 100
Patent
active
051652242
ABSTRACT:
A method of combusting an endothermic fuel in a lean premixed/prevaporized combustion system includes transferring thermal energy from a combustion air stream to an endothermic fuel decomposition catalyst to cool the combustion air stream and heat the fuel and catalyst to a temperature sufficient to endothermically decompose an endothermic fuel. The catalyst is contacted with fuel to cause the fuel to endothermically decompose into a reaction product stream. The reaction product stream is mixed with the cooled combustion air stream to form a well-mixed, uniformly lean fuel/air mixture and the fuel/air mixture is combusted at an equivalence ratio of less than 1 to produce a combustion product stream. The invention also includes a system for practicing the method.
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Guile Roy N.
Kesten Arthur S.
Spadaccini Louis J.
Bertsch Richard A.
Romanik George J.
Thorpe Timothy S.
United Technologies Corporation
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